Working musicians

What it's like to make a living making music, from the people who know best: more than a hundred of the biggest names in rock, jazz and hip-hop.Life in the world of professional music requires incredible devotion but pays big rewards. Your body clock is skewed toward night-time; touring is an endless parade of sound checks, hotel rooms and road food; success for most is a long incremental climb. But you're doing what you love most in the whole world — and there's no substitute for the reception from a room full of people who love it too.Based on interviews with more than a hundred working…